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	@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/8498,
	  title     = {Extraction of Symbolic Rules from Artificial Neural Networks},
	  author    = {S. M. Kamruzzaman and  Md. Monirul Islam},
	  country	= {},
	  institution	= {},
	  abstract     = {Although backpropagation ANNs generally predict
better than decision trees do for pattern classification problems, they
are often regarded as black boxes, i.e., their predictions cannot be
explained as those of decision trees. In many applications, it is
desirable to extract knowledge from trained ANNs for the users to
gain a better understanding of how the networks solve the problems.
A new rule extraction algorithm, called rule extraction from artificial
neural networks (REANN) is proposed and implemented to extract
symbolic rules from ANNs. A standard three-layer feedforward ANN
is the basis of the algorithm. A four-phase training algorithm is
proposed for backpropagation learning. Explicitness of the extracted
rules is supported by comparing them to the symbolic rules generated
by other methods. Extracted rules are comparable with other methods
in terms of number of rules, average number of conditions for a rule,
and predictive accuracy. Extensive experimental studies on several
benchmarks classification problems, such as breast cancer, iris,
diabetes, and season classification problems, demonstrate the
effectiveness of the proposed approach with good generalization
ability.},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering},
	  volume    = {1},
	  number    = {10},
	  year      = {2007},
	  pages     = {3308 - 3314},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/8498},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/10},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 10, 2007},
	}